Toy buffalo
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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Previous owner
- Wife of One Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
- Collector
- Frances T. Densmore, Non-Indian, 1867-1957
- Seller
- Frances T. Densmore, Non-Indian, 1867-1957
- Collection History
- Collected from Mrs. One Bull (Lakota) in 1913 or 1914 by ethnologist and ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore (1867-1957); purchased by MAI from Frances Densmore in 1917.
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- Date created
- circa 1870
- Catalog Number
- 6/7936
- Barcode
- 067936.000
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- Object Name
- Toy buffalo
- Media/Materials
- Buffalo hide/skin, bird claw/claws, unknown stuffing
- Techniques
- Sewn
- Dimensions
- 37 x 21 x 9 cm
- Place
- Standing Rock Reservation; Corson County; South Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Games, Toys, Gambling
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_73229
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws645396f65-d11f-443f-ad1f-28ded3bf1dd6
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